I just came back from the Backroads poetry reading at the highschool.
All in all, it was better than I would have expected. There was not as much soulful snapping and artsy bongo playing as I might have liked, but it still exceeded my expectations. The only thing that bothered me was how out of place I felt. The poetry style seemed so...plagiarized. Like, textbook creativity. It seemed like they were imitating the groundbreaking artists who originated the grungy, offbeat stuff of jazz clubs in San Francisco. It's become a stereotype now. I'm not saying that the high schoolers weren't good at it, but it seemed that I only remembered the ones that weren't meant to be taken seriously. Most of the rest of them just blended together. Every set of goosebumps I got was begrudgingly pulled from me, and in the end, the only eventful piece was the twenty minute guitar solo at the end of the show.
After that, I must say that I thoroughly enjoy the experience, especially Izzy Avila's boob poetry, and Sarah's ode to the Earth.
Kudos to the songwriters.
I thought it was all good.
ReplyDeleteYours was slightly cliche in my opinion, though very good. Well..it's not that yours was bad just.. if there's was stereotypical then yours was cliche.
Like saying, if you're fat then I'm a whale, yes?
Haha. Yeah, that's kind of why I didn't want to be there. I realized that I was in a different league, when the performance started. It's just not my thang, you know? I appreciate it, and all. You kuh-no.
ReplyDeleteI do. I do thin you're a lovely writer though. I'm looking at your London Bus right now. That's my favorite I think.
ReplyDeleteheh heh, teh song writers.
ReplyDeleteHa. I think sometimes I write to please other people. That's the writing I hate. Rhyming is like...fun, and satisfying. But I keep my serious stuff to myself.
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